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bureaucracy

English

  1. 🔊 any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape
  2. 🔊 a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials
  3. 🔊 nonelective government officials

Spanish

  1. 🔊 burocracia bureaucracy

Similar words

bureaucratism administration authorities beadledom beat beaten path bumbledom bureaucratism chinoiserie daily grind directorate government grind groove hierarchy higher echelons higher-ups jog trot management ministry official jargon officialdom officialism prelacy